Sharing our gifts with others as we joyously connect with the community and one another.

Team Lead/Champion:  Rosalie Bain

This Project involves using our gifts by making toques to donate them to the needy. Participants donate yarn, roll the yarn, hook the toques and deliver them to over 25 different groups in need. Lessons to learn the simple skills to become a HAPPY HOOKER are provided monthly in person at the Center.  Also, two short introduction Videos on basic hooking skills are provided below.  Simply click on the video to active.   The Loops of Joy have donated well over 2500 toques. They are greatly appreciated by all the recipients.

MEMORY BAGS

Memory Bags are designed and donated to most hospices in southern Alberta. They are for families who have lost a loved one, so they can take home their belongings in something other than a plastic garbage bag. They are greatly appreciated.  If you would like to help out making the bags, help to deliver them or provide donated material, pls contact us by becoming a volunteer of outreach (volunteer button above) and letting us know in the comments section or message us at c4c@calgarycsl.org with your interest.

Your donations: We are always glad to receive yarn or material. They can be dropped off at the bin at CCSL.

Team Lead/Champion:  Dee Bardsley

Volunteers conducted a BLANKET AND TOWEL DRIVE that collected 114 towels and 71 blankets! They also collected over 1100 items and 85 backpacks to make 100 FROSTY BITES KITS and extra items! Volunteers counted, bagged, labelled and delivered items to the Calgary Drop In Centre. They had 29 volunteers who worked at the DONATION CENTRE SORTING clothing, books, kitchen supplies, etc. that were donated by the general public the Calgary Drop In Centre. Thank you to the over 70 volunteers who participated in Calgary Drop In Centre events, from the Funday school children making cards to go into the kits, to the Teens/Tweens who carried donations up into the loft and, to all of the adult volunteers.

Team Lead/ Champion: Leslie Gardner

Providing sandwiches, prepared with love, for less privileged.

We gathered together for several years and created lunchtime favorite healthy sandwiches – a perfect vehicle for complex carbohydrates, good-for-you fats, fiber-packed veggies, and lean protein. These sandwiches were donated to partner charity-CUPS.

“To be in loving service of humanity while strengthening the community with like-minded beings.”

Team Lead/Champion:  Cathy Prohl

C4C volunteers partnered with Camp Horizon at Bragg Creek to help with the season-end clean up. Camp Horizon provides summer camps and respite that fosters inclusion, independence and recreation for Albertans, youth and adults, with disabilities and medical conditions. Our volunteers detail-cleaned camp vehicles and dorms, and sorted and stored equipment used for physical activities and crafts. It felt wonderful to be able to help out! Let’s do it again!

If you are interested in volunteering for the Outreach Program consider the following:

Outreach champions

Volunteer to spearhead one of our outreach programs or bring forward a suggestion for something you would like to see the Center undertake (according to the project criteria provided above).

Outreach Project Volunteer

Each of the projects we are now running needs volunteer assistance.  The time commitment is up to you, from a few hours a month to a few hours a week.  Let us know by email at c4c@calgarycsl.org which project interests you and we will find something that fits your interest and schedule.

Outreach Steering Committee Member

Several times a year, a committee meeting is announced and anyone from the community may attend.  You become a committee member by your presence and willingness to participate.  You may also volunteer to be on the steering committee by emailing c4c@calgarycsl.org.

Projects will be assessed to see if they meet the following 4 basic criteria:

1. The Project will be Local and with a definite beginning and end point.
2. The project will incorporate an opportunity for our members to invest their time and energy, their talents and their treasures.
3. The project will have sufficient support of the membership and the recipient organization to be successful.
4. The activities to be undertaken will provide life affirming support and/or assist individuals to reveal their wholeness and personal power/magnificence.